BOISE, Idaho — Garden master Jim Duthie shows us something different that you might want to consider growing next year. Gourds! They’re members of the squash family, and for the most part, people ...

Gourds are plentiful in the autumn -- you'll find them at farm stands, garden centers and grocery stores. Don’t toss your gourds at the end of the season, dry them instead. Dried gourds weigh a few ...

Many vegetable gardeners look for new crops or new varieties of crops they have experience growing to add to their garden. And this is the time of year when gardeners start to think about how they ...

When Deb Brill buys supplies for her hobby, she stands in the middle of a gourd patch where she examines them carefully and envisions the pieces of art she will create. There are numerous gourds of ...

Could the humble gourd one day replace single-use coffee cups? Brooklyn-based architect and designer Jun Aizaki hopes his invention - the HyO-Cup - will do just that. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FOUNDER OF ...

I picked up a packet of gourd seeds last spring with the thought that some of the little, colorful things would look great in my fall décor. I imagined tucking them into nooks near pumpkins, by straw ...

“What makes a gourd desirable?”my husband asked, calling from a farmer’s roadside stand where I’d sent him in a panic to find pumpkins and gourds for my fall open house. Everyone has her own answer to ...

Sitting at the kitchen table this early morning, I see before me nature’s infinite variety in the form of a shallow blue-gray bowl filled with five small gourds. Two of them are entirely the color of ...

Last year when I attended the Ohio Gourd Festival to help, I took several photographs. This year my invitation brought a different focus. Oh, sure I spent some time at their sales tables, but this ...

Gourds are sold using direct marketing, and much of their sales are generated by attending gourd shows. Dickie estimates they sell between 400 and 500 gourds at some of the larger shows.